On Friday I had chance to be in Berkeley, CA for a few hours, and while walking past the university campus heard what sounded like live music, so we popped over to a campus quad. There, a five-piece band played for what started as a very small, but soon growing, crowd. They looked pretty young, but only after they mentioned they’d slept in a nearby park the night before did I realize they were not from Berkeley, but apparently a professional band there to play as part of the back-to-school festivities. I liked what I heard, and bought their CD without even knowing their name.

Neither their CD liner nor their Web site give a heck of a lot of biographical info about Meg and Dia, so I can’t relay much here. The music varies between fuzzy guitar-driven rock and gentler, folkier stuff, with a lot of vocal interplay between the two sisters.

They’ve got four songs on their Music page; they’re not downloadable as mp3s, but will give you a good sense of their sound. The one downloadable track at Purevolume, “Setting Up Sunday” (you have to click through to the page to download it), is on the mellower end.